Audience

This publication is for experienced network administrators who configure and maintain Cisco NX-OS on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Platform switches.

Document Conventions

Note

As part of our constant endeavor to remodel our documents to meet
our customers' requirements, we have modified the manner in which we document
configuration tasks. As a result of this, you may find a deviation in the style
used to describe these tasks, with the newly included sections of the document
following the new format.

The Guidelines and Limitations section contains general guidelines
and limitations that are applicable to all the features, and the
feature-specific guidelines and limitations that are applicable only to the
corresponding feature.

Command descriptions use the following conventions:

Convention

Description

bold

Bold text indicates the commands and keywords that you enter
literally as shown.

Italic

Italic text indicates arguments for which the user supplies
the values.

Nested set of square brackets or braces indicate optional or
required choices within optional or required elements. Braces and a vertical
bar within square brackets indicate a required choice within an optional
element.

variable

Indicates a variable for which you supply values, in context
where italics cannot be used.

string

A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use
quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation
marks.

Examples use the following conventions:

Convention

Description

screen font

Terminal sessions and information the switch displays are in
screen font.

boldface screen font

Information you must enter is in boldface screen font.

italic screen font

Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen
font.

< >

Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are in angle
brackets.

[ ]

Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.

!, #

An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the
beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.

This document uses the following conventions:

Note

Means
reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or
references to material not covered in the manual.

Caution

Means
reader be careful. In this situation, you might do
something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.